KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of modestly sized scale in MIAMI, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, educateing 294 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 51% smaller than typical.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 33% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Miami-Dade County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 54.4%, a residual of +5.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.8%.

KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 17%, going from 356 students in 2018 to 294 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.